1. The bluest eye
Maureen Peal comes to Pecola's school in the winter, and has a profound influence on what Pecola thinks of herself. ... Maureen is responsible for saving Pecola from being teased for her skin colour by some of the boys at school. They only stopped because they didn't want to be seen making fun of her in front of Maureen. Pecola concludes that it is because Maureen is lighter-skinned that she is more beautiful than the other girls, thus further reinforcing the notion that blackness is ugly. Not only is Maureen more beautiful, she is wealthy as well, a further proof, in Pecola'...
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